In April this year, global pig iron production amounted to 98.25 million metric tons, decreasing by 2.15 percent compared to March and up 3.5 percent on year-on-year basis, according to the preliminary data covering 38 countries accounting ...
Tags: Pig Iron Output, Metallurgy
According to the data released by metal trading enterprise Ukrainian Mining and Metallurgical Company (UGMK), in March this year Ukraine's exports of steel products increased by four percent month on month to 2.023 million mt. In ...
Tags: Ukraine, Steel Product, Q1
According to the Ukrainian association of metal producers Metallurgprom, in the January-April period of this year Ukraine's exports of iron ore increased by 12 percent compared to the same period last year to 12.570 million mt. Meanwhile, ...
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The NPD Group reports that Kids' Activewear Grew In Double-Digits; Activewear outpaced the total kids' apparel market. The NPD Group, a global information company, reports that the total kids' apparel market was worth an estimated $30 ...
Tags: Kids Activewear, Apparel
According to the customs statistics provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), Turkey's slab imports amounted to 184,651 metric tons in March this year, increasing again after two consecutive months of month-on-month decrease, up ...
The Romanian cement market declined 0.2 percent in 2012 owing to bad weather and an unfavorable economic context, and this year seems no better as yet. Any growth by yearend will be small, and could only come from infrastructure investments ...
Tags: Cement, Construction
Global LED tube lighting shipments in 2013 will increase to 220 million units to account for 5.5% of the entire lighting market, as LED tube lights' luminous efficiency reaches 110lm/W, which is comparable to that of fluorescent ones, ...
Tags: LED Tube Light, Lighting
Worldwide semiconductor revenues decreased by 2.2 percent year over year to $295 billion in 2012, according to the latest version of the International Data Corporation (IDC) Semiconductor Application Forecaster (SAF). The industry witnessed ...
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LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker Epistar expects LED applications to account for 30% of total revenues in third-quarter 2013, up from the current 20-25%, due to increasing demand. As production capacity for blue-color LED (InGaN) chips ...
Northbrook Public Library's summer program has been revised to promote children's creativity and as part of the effort is asking for donations of constructive toys. "Game Outside the Box" is for children of all ages interested in science, ...
Tags: Toys, toy industry
Plastics and rubber producer Styron Europe said Friday that it plans to roll over its monthly price for styrene butadiene latex in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and India in June, in a bid to widen profit margins amid falling feedstock ...
The backwardation structure in the Asian paraxylene market narrowed to $2/mt Thursday from $5/mt Wednesday as front-month laycans were seen to be weaker than back-month and amid heavy spot PX selling by Chinese purified terephthalic acid ...
Tags: Chemicals, PTA producers
It was assessed by SunSirs that in the tracked 100 spot commodities,12 commodities increased in prices, 34 fell and 54 remained unchanged on 17/05/2013.The largest rises were Dried cocoons (1.69%),Copper (0.87%),HDPE (0.64%),while the ...
Tags: Chemicals
Japan's Osaka Gas and Kyushu Electric Power have signed a 12-year LNG transportation agreement with shipping company Mitsui OSK Lines to lift contracted volumes from the Ichthys LNG project offshore Australia, Osaka Gas said in a statement ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Gas
Gasoline stocks in the Amsterdam-Rotterdam-Antwerp region fell 15.9% week on week in the seven days to May 16, according to a report by BNP Paribas released Friday. Stocks fell by 1.5 million barrels to 7.8 million barrels, and were 3.2% ...
Tags: Chemicals, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy